Fun Facts

On a Cold Road (Dave's book title) was originally a title Dave had envisioned for Double Live.
The bit at the end of "Ditch Pigs" was originally "I'll have an egg salad sandwich and a chocolate milk!"
MIDI Rheos: Rusty's a MIDI geek and here's an instrumental version of his band The Mnemonic Devices's cover of "Take Me In Your Hand" (play it). The real version (which sounds less MIDI-ish, to be sure) is found on the album I Don't Remember and features vocals by Rusty and Debi (buy it).
The origin of the name Rheostatics: Dave and Tim were looking through their Physics book at Kipling Collegiate Institute (grade eleven) and they confused rheostatic with a rheostat, which is used in dimmer switches. (They were going to be called the New Originals.)
The Rheostatics used to be called the Trans-Canadian Soul Patrol and had a horn section.
Kevin Taylor, American Rheostatics fan, owns a business which sells and promotes health and nutritional products called Introducing Happiness.
There's a site called Happening Fish, which refers to the Rheostatics.
Liner notes from the "Sweet, Rich, Beautiful, and Mine" 7" liner notes: "Rich, Beautiful, and Mine was originally written by Mrs, Torrance and recorded for the album I'm the Bird in January 1996. The Rheostatics started playing a version of this song, using the chrous but adding thier own completely different verses. They named this version "Sweet, Rich, Beautiful, and Mine."
The front graphic, the cartoon of the Rheostatics, was drawn by Nicki Lapointe specifically for this page.